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News Update/Commentary
New study challenges our understanding of the immune system
March 10, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers have created a radical new view of how immune cells recognise threats such as viruses. The discovery could be used to design better vaccines and to gain a deeper insight into autoimmune diseases and allergies.
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Video
Where does order in nature come from?
March 10, 2023 YouTube
Ali of the University of Delaware is author of ‘Earthly Order: How natural laws define human life'. He engages with Meyer of the Discovery Institute, whose book ‘The Return of The God Hypothesis' makes the case that order in nature points to a divine mind
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News Update/Commentary
Astrocyte cells critical for learning skilled movements
March 10, 2023 Science Daily
When astrocyte function is disrupted, neurons in the brain's motor cortex struggle to execute and refine motion, a new study in mice shows.
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News Update/Commentary
How to assemble a complete jaw
March 10, 2023 Science Daily
The skeleton, tendons, and glands of a functional jaw all derive from the same population of stem cells, which arise from a cell population known as neural crest.
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News Update/Commentary
Rutgers scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth
March 10, 2023 Science Daily
Research could provide clues to extraterrestrial life
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News Update/Commentary
Jewel beetles evolve to see new colors by duplicating their genes
March 10, 2023 Science Daily
New research probes the vibrant vision and complex evolutionary history of jewel beetles
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Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human ‘tools'
March 10, 2023 New Scientist
When macaques use stones to crack nuts, they accidentally create flakes that look like early human artefacts, raising questions about whether such objects were made deliberately
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Big Science Embraces Disinformation
March 10, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
If it’s for the common good, lying and manipulating the public is justified, say leftist totalitarians in academia
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What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation
March 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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New study on monkeys using stone tools raises questions about evolution
March 10, 2023 The Hill
Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans -- challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution.
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Cosmic vision
March 10, 2023 Aeon
By showing us a new cosmos, the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe
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Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal
March 10, 2023 Nature
Fruit fly ‘connectome’ will help researchers to study how the brain works, and could further understanding of neurological diseases.
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A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers
March 10, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Fossil Friday
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We (Probably) Can’t Tell Whether Mars Has Life
March 10, 2023 Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union
State-of-the-art equipment can’t always identify life inhabiting the most Mars-like spot on Earth, leaving scientists wondering how to do better on the Red Planet.
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Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim Yet
March 9, 2023 Physics, v.16
Condensed-matter physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues reported on Tuesday the discovery of a room-temperature, near-ambient-pressure superconductor; Dias is also being accused of committing scientific misconduct, including data manipulation
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The Best Reason to Trust Science
March 9, 2023 Wall Street Journal
Scientists aren’t always certain how the world works, but they are willing to change their minds in the face of evidence
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News Update/Commentary
Complex learned social behavior discovered in bee's ‘waggle dance'
March 9, 2023 Science Daily
Researchers find that learning and culture are needed for one of the most intricate forms of communication known outside humans
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Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence
March 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Depths of Design
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The Big Bang says nothing about the creation of the cosmos
March 9, 2023 Big Think
Cosmic origins remain a mystery.
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Neanderthal Crab Bake
March 9, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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Convergence? One-Celled Creature Has an Eye!
March 9, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West
March 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Treason of the Science Journals
March 8, 2023 Tablet magazine
How Anthony Fauci manufactured consensus on the origins of COVID-19 with the help of science writers and the media
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Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells
March 8, 2023 The Guardian
Creation of mammal with two biological fathers could pave way for new fertility treatments in humans
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News Update/Commentary
Genetic adaptations help Amazonian populations resist Chagas infection
March 8, 2023 Science Daily
An international study has discovered a genetic variant that confers resistance to Chagas infection in Amazonian populations. Indigenous people from Amazon show genetic Q1 signatures of pathogen-driven selection.
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Weaker Assertion → Stronger Argument
March 8, 2023 The Gospel Coalition
Not long ago, a viral tweet made its way into my feed. Once again, a Christian was using bombastic language to insist objective morality is impossible without God.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
March 8, 2023 Nature
Diverse aerobic bacteria use atmospheric H2 as an energy source. This globally significant process regulates the composition of the atmosphere, enhances soil biodiversity and drives primary production in extreme environments.
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News Update/Commentary
Paleontologists flip the script on anemone fossils
March 8, 2023 Science Daily
Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans -- yet they are among the rarest of fossils because their squishy bodies lack easily fossilized hard parts.
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Earliest Known Horseback Riders Pushed Back to 5000 Years Ago
March 8, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution
March 8, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Bumblebees Can Solve Puzzles Like Chimps?
March 8, 2023 Uncommon Descent
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The Need To Distinguish Ourselves from Nature
March 8, 2023 Uncommon Descent
astrophysicist insists
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Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage
March 7, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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No, our Universe isn’t made of pure mathematics
March 7, 2023 Medium
Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
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News Update/Commentary
Pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans
March 7, 2023 Science Daily
A nuclear hormone receptor intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth and virulence, revealing an evolutionarily ancient strategy of immune sensing
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The big theoretical problem of dark energy
March 7, 2023 Big Think
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
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Bumblebees can solve puzzles by learning from each other
March 7, 2023 Big Think
Could it be culture?
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How Secular Institutions Can Do Design Science
March 7, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Design science is done any time a scientist assumes a purpose and looks for it. No overt appeals to religion or ideology are needed.
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Galaxies’ missing matter may be found -- but now there’s too much of it
March 6, 2023 New Scientist
Most galaxies seemed to be missing a huge proportion of the matter we expected them to have -- now researchers may have found its hiding spot, but the discovery contradicts accepted models of galaxy formation
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Silly Darwin Stories Continue
March 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Macroevolutionary theory is in tatters, but it hasn’t stopped Darwin storytellers from fantasizing
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Our Sun, Finely Tuned for Life on Earth
March 6, 2023 Institute for Creation Research
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“How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
March 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
Sean Carroll
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Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination
March 6, 2023 Evolution News & Science Today
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Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?"
March 6, 2023 Mind Matters
The well known physicist thinks free will is nonsense. But has he investigated the classical understanding of causation?
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Silly Darwin Stories Continue
March 6, 2023 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Macroevolutionary theory is in tatters, but it hasn’t stopped Darwin storytellers from fantasizing
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What were Neanderthals really like -- and why did they go extinct?
March 6, 2023 National Geographic
These ancient hominids, who disappeared 40,000 years ago, were once thought to be brutish. But recent discoveries have hinted they were more like us than we thought.
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News Update/Commentary
Wheat's ancient roots of viral resistance uncovered
March 6, 2023 Science Daily
The DNA sequence of a gene in wheat responsible for resisting a devastating virus has been discovered, providing vital clues for managing more resistant crops and maintaining a healthy food supply.
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Astrobiologists train an AI to find life on Mars
March 6, 2023 Nature
An artificial-intelligence model trialled in Chile’s Atacama Desert could one day detect signs of life on other planets.
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What Turkey’s earthquake tells us about the science of seismic forecasting
March 6, 2023 Nature
Geologists knew decades ago that a quake would strike southeastern Turkey, but precise prediction is still the stuff of science fiction.
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The Universe May Have Started with a Dark Big Bang
March 5, 2023 Universe Today
The Big Bang may have not been alone. The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang that flooded our universe with dark matter particles. And we may be able to detect it.